Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 05:50:36 / February 27, 2018 @ 5:50 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:50:36 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.4735° West, latitude 19.0131° North, depth = 50 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018058001. Id of event: pr2018058001.

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Morovis, Pájaros (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4735° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0131° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-27 05:50:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-27 07:52:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	131	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7231	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	297	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2018058001	Id of event.
Event Code	2018058001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018058001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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